Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent

James Bottomley
2003-05-18T15:53:20Z

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 16:09, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:36:01PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > How would you feel about making this API change?
>
> No problem.
>
> > I take it you have a preference for using _to_cpu and _to_device
> > call variants?
>
> Thinking about it some, these could be confused with the direction of
> DMA.
>
> Would "dma_sync_for_device" and "dma_sync_for_cpu" fit better?

That's still a bit ambiguous.

I suppose dma_sync_ownership_to_device etc. would be descriptive but too
cumbersome...?

James